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title: And if any man say ought against me or my kinsmen, then will I fight… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if any man say ought against me or my kinsmen, then will I fight with him, man to man." Who acts: man, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 99

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And if any man say ought against me or my kinsmen, then will I fight with him, man to man."

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**Who acts:** man, I · **What happens:** say, fight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:9:99
# text = And if any man say ought against me or my kinsmen, then will I fight with him, man to man."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
6	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	ccomp	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	TO	_	22	case	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | any man |  |  |  |  | me *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fight** | future | I |  |  |  | then | with man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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